A new beta of Wii Linux (Codename Miight) has been released. It has been worked on by Muzer and now includes a GUI (XORG) with wiimote support as a mouse and it has an on-screen keyboard as well as many other applications. Wifi is still untested.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Linux

MPlayerWii is an audio/video player. It is a native port of the MPlayer media player.

Release notes:

MPlayerWii 0.07 with DVD support
Released by tipolosko. Requires DVDx.

MPlayerWii v0.07 DCelso & Qualith MOD R1
A modded version just to support sequential and random play. No SDHC support at this momment.

MPlayerWii v0.07 with sdhc support
Simple recompile using the latest libogc by sanderevers. Now supports SDHC

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/MPlayerWii

Channel File Manager is based on WAD Manager 1.21 and you can manage your Wii channel menu. You can install devices from your choice and uninstall.

Changes:

– Support of the Italian language (BETA)
– Improving the French translation
– Fix errors internal compilation
– Channel File Manager now returns to the Wii Menu menu without health warning
– Add support for the classic lever (Tested by TGames)
– Add an icon for the Wii Homebrew Launcher (Samux thank you!)

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news!

http://www.cashman-productions.c.la/

Gouky ported the Amiga emulator UAE to Wii.

Release notes:

UAE4Wii is a port of the famous amiga emulator UAE based on UAE4all from Chui.
Pressing home will bring the GUI.

Wiimote is used as the mouse but also as pad #1 and pad #2

A = Left mouse click
B = Right mouse click
1 = Fire button
+ = Quit when emulating

To come, a nice GUI with advanced functions, a virtual keyboard and surely an update of the UAE
base source code used by Chui for UAE4ALL for more compatibility.

Credits :
UAE4all : Chui
UAE : UAE Team

Thanks to www.playeradvance.org / www.nintendomax.com for the news!

http://gouky.com/?menu_nav=PROJECTS&sub=UAE4WII

The Homebrew Browser allows you to download the latest homebrew applications and games all through your Wii. You don’t need to take your SD card out. You don’t even need a computer! You can also delete homebrew you no longer want.

Changes:

– Able to view currently installed applications
– Fixed bug in downloading and removing applications which affected uno and may have affected other applications
– Retries increased to 10 times with a longer pause in-between
– Able to reboot the Wii by holding B and pressing Home
– Detects if you have a .elf version of any application and lets you update that application
– Now uses zip files which means download sizes are reduced (thanks Tantric)
– Added SDHC support
– Detects if HBB icon or meta file exist, if they don’t then it downloads them

Thanks to Tantric the Homebrew Browser now has zip support. This means that applications that were classified as having too many files can now be included in the HBB. Applications now will take less time to download however the trade off is it takes a little while to extract the zip files.

http://www.codemii.com/2008/11/09/hbb-updated-to-v024/

Dungeons is an mini RPG for the Wii with some WiiMote supports. The aim is to find all red orbs and fight the last Boss. Fight monsters and power up your skills. The most important thing is to find out witch values are the best. Find keys and open doors in this labyrints of chaos and become a hero.

Release notes:

– first release (first game for wii and first game in pure C by iron hand 😉 )
– main engine completed (i hope)
– you can reach level 10 (you can play along but no new monster or maps appear)
– there are 15 orbs

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news!

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Dungeons

MahJongg Wii is an extremly polished free MahJongg solitaire game for the Wii.

Changes:

– Added versus mode!
– Re-factored the tile selection processing and completed all coding around tile selection for both versus and coop modes
– Added option to restart the game when paused or no more moves left
– Added option to start a new game without going back to the menu when current game has finished
– Changed so that if only two tiles are left which are on top of each other the game finishes
– Fixed bug where tile placement algorithm gets stuck in an infinite loop when it cannot place all tiles successfully. Now if this occurs it finishes the shuffle and returns to no more moves mode
– Alternated which pointer is drawn first every frame to not give the advantage to player one in two player versus mode
– Added separate tile selections per player (this affects the co-op mode as well as the versus mode)
– Added Hungarian, Finish and Swedish languages

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/MahJongg_Wii

CDGPlayer is a MP3 player with karaoke function.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_mp3-g-player-0-9-karaoke_1076583

Widdy / Metalvotze has informed us about his upcomming remake of Stroker ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroker ) for Nintendo”s Wii console. The game will feature funky original PETSCII like graphics and supports motion tracking.

The game will be most likly released at the TUM 2008 ( http://www.tum-home.de ) Game Coding Competition.

The game is having an adult theme and might not be suitable for everyone.

http://www.widdy.de/

This program automatically generates the XML file needed to add a homebrew app to the HBC.

Available for PC and MAC”s.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/HBCXMLGen